We were on a break.

Probably the very best thing about being in business for oneself is waking up one morning and deciding just not to go to work.  And that's what we did.  For 7 straight mornings.  And considering we're GIVING AWAY the lemonade, we may have even made a profit. 

But now that Grandma has been safely tucked back on an airplane and shuttled back to the land of tennis and bridge, and the sun has decided one again to make an appearance and life in general is just a little less intense, well, it was like gravity shifted under our beds and the next thing we knew we rolling down the hill to our shady spot on the path, lemonade and lemonbars in tow.

Ready to start anew...

But before we do, before we start anew, there's this one little thing that has been pestering me just a wee bit on these lazy dog days of August, but not in a bad way, more in a RCA dog listening to a phonograph way, a phonograph that is playing on the wrong speed kind of way.  So here goes;  I'm just wondering how it is that on the day my 80 year old mother and 10 year old daughter were managing the stand  a VEGAS SECRET and a potty humor secret filtered through the clouds and trees and viscosity of humanity and landed like a big bird turd on our lemonade stand? 

And it's not that I'm offended by the secrets.  Yay, secrets.  No holds bar!  We opened the door to secrets and we like that door to be open!

I'm just asking why is it on days when I provocate "free your soul with free lemonade",  the secrets which line our box vacillate between "I love lemonade" and rare and beautifully brutal truths - yay secrets and all you beautiful barers of your soul -, but when my fairly quiet and shy girl child and my clearly-there-just-to-placate-the-relatives-mother take full reign, penises start falling from the sky?  Something to think about.  Or not.  

Anyway, here are the secrets:

1. I stole a Hershy Bar when I was 8. 
2. I hit my sister.
3. I DON'T WANT TO BE A LAWYER, BUT I'M NOT IMAGINATIVE ENOUGH TO FIGURE OUT WHAT ELSE TO DO.  I THINK I FAILED THE BAR, ANYWAY.
4. One of my favorite things in the whole world is free lemonade. 
5. I spend too much money on shoes
6. I wish I did more things with my daughter
7. I hope to see the healing of the nation.
8. I started school when I was four
9. I once took the dog for a long morning walk when I knew she would rather just read.
10. I don't know how to use half the stuff on my cell phone.
11. I AM GAY AND LOVE IT; JUST CAN'T LET EVERYONE KNOW!
12. My name in some languages means handsome
13. Hope to travel to every country in the world
14. I'm from MT.
15. When I was 17 I drove my parents 57 Ford Stationwagon with bald tires, on a double date, at 110 MPH on the freeway.  I risked the loves of my friends and myself.  I am thoroughly ashamed.  My guardian angel has worked very hard over the years.
16. I do not like demanding HouseGuest.  We have had a few.